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Barley and Wheat Harvest
Harvested my first Barley on Saturday.
This was Shavuot, the holiday of the first fruits.
I am clarifying for next year: I need to plant the
Barley, as yearly as September...during the High Holidays...
So I have it by Passover.
I need to plant the wheat around Chanukah
in December, so I have it in May. This is the
cycle I want to get into.
Date: 6/1/2009 9:35:33 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 2749 times
Field are Ripe,
in Castus Iphoto Library now.
7:30 PM
June 1, 09
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The secular kibbutzim have it right. Since the earliest days, these kibbutzim have arranged to celebrate Shavuot with special ceremonies based on Torah laws. With song and dance they mark the end of the barley and the beginning of the wheat harvest (massechet ha'omer), and their children grow and present the first-fruits (hagigat habikurim) to the elders of the kibbutz and to their synagogue, if they have one.
The Kibbutz tradition of a first-fruits procession on Shavuot is closer to the biblical observation of the holiday.
That is what the Torah demands. Shavuot is the Festival of Weeks, seven weeks after Pessah, after the kohen had waved the omer (the first sheath of the barley crop) in the Temple. Seven weeks later the farmers celebrated the end of that crop and the beginning of the wheat harvest. These two cereals were a matter of life and death, so their harvesting would indeed be a matter for thanksgiving.
The people were also to bring the first fruits of the whole year, in an elaborate procession headed by a gold-bedecked bull, marching to the Temple to the sound of a flute, and feast there with their families. The essence of Shavuot was the celebration of the grain harvests and rejoicing in the successful gathering of the seven excellent fruits of the land. Both events were connected with the Temple built in the place chosen by God. However, as in so many other cases where local sanctuaries were still tolerated, it can be assumed that similar ceremonies would have taken place all over the land for those who could not make it to Jerusalem.
NOTE: The Ten Commandments is read on Shavuot.
INSIGHT WHILE LISTENING TO
Rabbi WAYNE DOSICK on Saturday:
The Redemption of the Earth is now the Focus.
Redemption? Redeem...? Redeem the Oceans?
Recycle! Get back in the flow. Keep the Beet.
Wow!
I am tired.
It is 7:37 PM
Good morning.
HANNA and MATT here.
Did a counseling session with Hanna.
Remembered...redeemed my coaching ways...
remembered how I do it.
Very healing.
RAW SPIRIT FESTIVAL in Santa Barbara is
this weekend.
I am just coming out of Mercury Retrograde.
Why would I want to go?
SCOTT is saying he is going.
He invited P.
Ask REGINA. Will she be in town...
Why...?
More important to clean up.
Need time to reflect on the Harvest of the last five days.
Amazing!!
Upload the photos to Facebook,
and Greenopolis.
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